Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-06-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,
Last night quite heavy shock of eartt
quake in Tucson.

feased the bill increasing the salary of repre-
sentstives to $1,000.
Wm. Aimison of Nashville, Tenn. was
elected president OF the International Typo
graphical Union Tuesday.
Psrnsll visited the House of Commons on
Monday. he Is in much better health, hsv.
ing gained flesh during the Recess.
Several more cases of small pox have been
discovered In Chicago in the same house
where the Italian was found suffering las,
week.
In the Atlantic yacht club regatta Tuesday
the Atlantic beat the Priscilla l6 min. Al
seconds, and the cutter Ga!xtea 2S min. 81
seconds.
The FIRST session of the decennial anniver.
sary of the Royal Arcanum, was held at Bo..
ton Tuesday afternoon. The reception takes
place Tuesday evening.
Cardinal Gibbons arrived at Baltimore
Tuesday afternoon. and was met at the depot
by nearly all the distinguished citizens of
that city. irrespective of creed
The conservative members of the English
faril-meut are signing q round robin" urg.
ing the government to make vigorous at.
tempt to end the coercion debate.
dispatch from Lagos says that a serious
trench, with reference to the ownership of
portion OF terrtery near Porto Noyo
The hundred and sixth annual communi-
cation of the Grand Lodge of +. & A. Ma
sons of the State of New York, opened in the
main hall of Masonic Temple Tuesday.
The following yachts have entered for the
Jubilee race; Alive, Sleuthhound, Dawn,
Dauntless, Genesta, Mabel, Valanvent, AT.
iantis, Gwendolin, Bridesmaid and Helene.
1t is stated that Russia has determined to
nesotiate for the appointment Of temporary
prince of Bulgaria, but the powers are not
likely to accept the proposition TO that effect.
The cage in one of the coal pits at Mother
Well, Lanarkshire, Scotland, fell sc feet on
Tuesday. OF the six persons in it three were
killed outright and the others badly injured
The collapse ota scatiod on new build
ing III the southeastern section Of Washing
ton, d. C., Tuesday forenoon, resulted in
the death of John Clark and serious injury to
| SIX others.
Editor O'Brien has received cablegram
from the executive of the National League in
Ireland heartily approving his action in
keeping the Irish questions free from Amer
Ican issues.
At the regular tortnightly meeting of the
National League held in London Tuesday,
the opinion or those presen: was that the
course OF Davitt, in advising tenants to resist
eviction was not wise.
The troops of the Ameer of Afghanistan,
and the Chill Zais who are in revolt against
the Ameers authority, retain the same posi-
tlons they have occupied for some time past,
and are apparently trying to starve each other
out.
A. H. DG. Al. NJ
vania ONO railroad company, an injunction
was served Monday, by the United States
Circuit Court, to restrain the striking ore
handlers of that company from trespassing
on their old fields of labor.
The secretary of the navy on Tuesday,
gave orders for vessels of the North Atlantic
squadron to proceed to New Haven, Conn,
for the purpose of participating in the cere-
monies incident to the dedication of the SOL
diers' and sailors monument at that city on
the 18th inst.
The request of Captain Mclean, of the
American fishing schooner Henry Dennis, to
be allowed to procure ice at Halifax, has
been refused by the custom authorities. 1t
is reported that several American fishermen
| secured good fares OF mac xerel on the Shell
bourne coast, Sunday.
The afternoon train on the Cincinnati,
Washington Baltimore road, which had
been out making test of a patent brake,
ran upon the unballasted side Of the track on
returning, in Millock. The rails sank and
threw the engine and four coaches down
| thirty foot embankment causing q loss of
| 1000.
The distress in Hungary increases hourly.
Numerous lives have been lost Entire herds
of cattle have been drowned at Maka. The
flood has reached Czanad county and fully
fifty thousand acres will be inundated
| Csongar1 is submerged. tbs calculated that
fifty thousand families have been ruined BY
| the floods.
Arthur +. HornblOwer, the teller of the
Hoboken Savings Bank, who mysteriously
disappeared last Friday, returned to his home
Monday, from Binghsmpton, whithtr he had
gone while mentally deranged. He was rec
ognized by the clerk of the hotel at which he
was stopping in that city, who telegraphed to
Mrs. Hornblower.
| Five boys, three named B .ck and two
named Hindel, whose ages ranged from nine
| to sixteen years, were drowned in the Mau.
quoketa, seven miles east of Mauquoketa,
Iowa, Monday. Three of them jumped from
a sand bar into the water beyond their DEPTH
when another boy saw they were drown ming
and jumped in to save them. Another boy,
who had his clothes on, noticing the failure
of the first boy, plunged in and all drowned
together.
John Meehan, nine years old, and William
Klotaberger, aged eleven years, we're ar
raigned this morning in the Toombs police
court on charge of murder. When on
their way home from school they met an old
Italian, Louis Maserpetro, at the corner of
Grsnd and Mott streets. Klotaberger pushed
bis companion against the old man, who fell.
He got up and moved away but the boys
stoned ard j 'stied him until he fell again
| and fractured his skull
| At Franklin parish, New Orleans, Monday
| Mandy Henderson, colored woman, was set
upon by her four sisters and stabbed to death.
Mandy had deserted her husband and taken
| up her abode with Ed Thomas. This SO in
censed the sisters that they called upon her
while in Thomas house and dared her to
come out. Mandy went to the door and was
at once attacked by the four females. She
fell after short struggle, wounded ty a
dirk. Thomas fought desperately for his
psramour, using q club with terrible effect
upon the sisters, one of whom died. The
others we're badly injured.